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The boy at the gate : a memoir

Danny Ellis · Arcade Publishing
Format: Hardcover

An acclaimed singer/songwriter returns to the streets of Dublin where he, confronted by forgotten memories of betrayal and abandonment, makes a discovery that stands as a testament to the healing power of music and love.
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With Love and Laughter, John Ritter

Amy Yasbeck · Gallery Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

With Love and Laughter is actress Amy Yasbeck's most enduring memory of the life she shared with her husband, John Ritter. He was one of America's most popular and beloved film and television actors. We welcomed him into our homes weekly with his Emmy Award-winning portrayal of Jack...
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Coco Chanel

Justine Picardie · ItBooks
Format: Hardcover

In Coco Chanel, Justine Picardie peels away the layers of romance and myth surrounding the legend of Coco Chanel, revealing the true history of the incredible woman who shaped modern fashion and created an empire of haute couture. Picardie's unprecedented research illuminates Chanel’s...
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Who Named the Knife: A Book of Murder and Memory

Linda Spalding · Pantheon
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Murder. Hawaii’s beautiful Hanauma Bay. The suspects: two young mainlanders on their honeymoon. Maryann Acker, a pretty young Mormon woman, is eighteen. William, just out of prison, is twenty-eight. The crime is robbery, ending in a killing.In 1982, Linda Spalding, a mainlander herself,...
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The Elephant to Hollywood

Michael Caine · Henry Holt & Company; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Charming, engaging, and surprisingly forthright, Michael Caine gives us his insider's view of Hollywood and the story of his brilliant second actWhen he was in his late fifties, Michael Caine believed his glamorous, rags-to-riches Hollywood career had come to an end. The scripts being...
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Fully Alive: Discovering What Matters Most

Timothy Shriver · Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Hardcover

On a quest for what matters most, Timothy Shriver discovers a radically different, inspiring way of life.At a time when we are all more rudderless than ever, we look for the very best teachers and mentors to guide us. In Fully Alive, an unusual and gripping memoir, Timothy Shriver shows...
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Absolutely on Music: Conversations

Seiji Ozawa · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

A deeply personal, intimate conversation about music and writing between the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author and his close friend, the former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Haruki Murakami's passion for music runs deep. Before turning his hand to writing, he ran a jazz...
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The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education

Craig M. Mullaney · Penguin Press HC, The; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Craig M. Mullaneys education had been relentlessly preparing him for this moment. The four years he spent at West Point and the harrowing test of Ranger School readied him for a career in the Army. His subsequent experience as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford couldnt have been further from the Army...
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The Hot One: A Memoir of Friendship, Sex, and Murder

Carolyn Murnick · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A gripping memoir of friendship with a tragic twist - two childhood best friends diverge as young adults, one woman is brutally murdered and the other is determined to uncover the truth about her wild and seductive friend.As girls growing up in rural New Jersey in the late 1980s, Ashley...
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The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives

Christine Hassler · The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives Unknown Binding
Format: Kindle Edition

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER   In this inspiring book, Katie Couric distills the ingenious, hard-won insights of such leaders and visionaries as Maya Angelou, Jimmy Carter, Michael J. Fox, and Ken Burns, who offer advice about life, success, and happiness—how to take chances,...
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Edison Inventing the Century

Neil Baldwin · Hyperion Books; 1 edition
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

Using unprecedented access to Edison family papers and years of research at the Edison corporate archives, Neil Baldwin offers a revealing portrait of one of America's seminal inventors: a man whose imagination, dynamism, entrepreneurial brilliance epitomized the American dream as he became...
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